Chef's Cook Off Street Party, Fungi Farm-to-Table Celebration, Myco-remediation Course The Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF) kicks off its 32nd annual four-day festival this Thursday, August 15 and continues through Sunday August, 18. Telluride Mushroom Festival offers something for everyone: guided mushroom forays, presentations on cultivation, remediation, and...
[caption id="attachment_33986" align="alignright" width="187"] Maggie Klinedinst, a Mushroom Fest 2013 guest[/caption] Telluride Mushroom Festival (TMF) and the Telluride Institute are proud to announce the schedule the 32nd annual gathering, which takes place Thursday, August 15-Sunday, August 18, 2013. This year, the festival is focused on the...
Party like it is 1237 B.C. Guess who's coming to dinner? Promise, he will bring the wine. It's Dionysus, who can be scarier than your mother-in-law on a bad hair day and just as unpredictable. The strange and wildly contradictory aspects of the god have, over time, been...
[caption id="attachment_33927" align="alignright" width="281"] An image from Telluride Plein Air[/caption] They came. They saw. They painted. "They" were Plein Air artists selected through a juried process, their work (along with a biography) vetted by a panel of artists, gallery owners and educators. Between Friday, June 28 – Thursday, July 4,...
Robert Rogers can best be described as “authentically fascinated.” At least those are the words his wife, Laurie Rogers, uses when it comes to his interest in plants and fungi. His students and friends might have another way of explaining his dedication to the natural world. “They think...
I’m always surprised if I get lost when I’m hiking. But the friends who hike with me never are. They expect it. Perhaps it’s semantics rooted in a difference of definitions. Often I’m headed in the right direction, but just may not be on the...
The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is excited to announce the addition of more artists to 2013 festival lineup and a special 20th annual Celebration Show to kick off the festival weekend, Thursday, September 12. The 20th annual Telluride Blues & Brews takes place September...
[caption id="attachment_33880" align="alignright" width="300"] Ben Knight image featured in Adventure Journal[/caption] Still trawling the Internet daily. And today I came across a familiar name. Ben Knight was a photographer at the Daily Planet when I worked there (which I did for 15 years). He was terrific;...
[caption id="attachment_33886" align="alignright" width="150"] View from the Lodge proch[/caption] Enchanting rumors have long surrounded Dunton Hot Springs, the restored ghost town-turned-luxury resort. As of June, 2013, there is something substantive and new to talk about. On a recent summer day, we set out for lunch at Cresto...
